HeвЂ™s going to leave the kid behind, and they can start a new life together. The dividing point between Billy and Becca comes when she discovers that he wants her to run away вЂ¦ but not Ryan. Urban is good in these scenes, but they go on too long and end in a way thatвЂ™s not entirely believable. She escapes surveillance by telling her overlords that sheвЂ™s going to a bridge to smoke, but she catches up with her husband instead. While the legacy of StormfrontвЂ™s evil is being defined, Billy makes his way to Becca. Immortal, murderous racism that doesnвЂ™t age and seems to have found a way to come back stronger in 2020? Yikes. She reveals that the monster known as Liberty is the same one now known as Stormfront. And then she was paid to keep her mouth shut. She witnessed Liberty murder her brother, calling him a вЂњBlack piece of shitвЂќ before doing it. They chat it up across the heartland, eventually arriving at the home of someone connected to Liberty, who tells a harrowing story about an incident from when she was only 11. ItвЂ™s nice to see Laz Alonso getting more screentime than heвЂ™s been allowed previously, but the driving and socializing scenes between MM, Hughie, and Annie drag. The two вЂњnormieвЂќ arcs of this episode play out rather routinely (and take way too long to accomplish what they do in this episode).

The word вЂњcreepyвЂќ doesnвЂ™t even begin to capture it, especially in the final scene. ItвЂ™s revealed that this is actually Doppelganger taking on the form of Stillwell for the pleasure of the most popular superhero in the world. Meanwhile, Homelander visits Madelyn Stillwell! At first, seeing the murdered Vought power player is startling, but itвЂ™s clear something isnвЂ™t quite normal from the beginning, and not just because Stillwell seems to be in вЂњHomelander Fantasy Mode,вЂќ carrying her own breast milk and wearing a revealing outfit. Billy tasks MotherвЂ™s Milk with going to find Liberty while Billy goes to find his wife and kid. TheyвЂ™re not far, but theyвЂ™re under heavy surveillance by Vought. Before Billy can go find Liberty and figure out how sheвЂ™s connected, Grace gives her the details on Becca and RyanвЂ™s location. It turns out that an old supe named Liberty was all over RaynorвЂ™s server before she was murdered. Both non-Homelander arcs start with a meeting between Billy and Grace. The writers leave Stormfront for the majority of the episode, focusing instead on three arcs: Billy trying to rescue Becca, Homelander dealing with his new role in The Seven, and a road trip to find Liberty. Sound familiar? Even her name hits the ear differently now than it did in the premiere.

Stormfront is a character who purports to be the only one who can speak the truth and tear down the system, but is actually a virulently racist borderline Nazi. ItвЂ™s interesting to see how Stormfront has generated controversy with viewers, some of whom may have been enchanted by her initial no-nonsense presentation. They are likely to say the same about this episode, given the flashback to what Liberty/Stormfront did to a Black man after a traffic stop, but thatвЂ™s for later. As Amazon had to have known, the end of episode three was a buzz-generator online, with some even suggesting that the racial epithet that the purported hero threw out before killing Kenji should have come with a trigger warning. And itвЂ™s about StormfrontвЂ™s continued dominance. вЂњNothing Like It in the WorldвЂќ is all about defining relationships: Hughie and Annie, Billy and Becca, Homelander and Homelander, Frenchie and Kimiko, Maeve and Elena. The same thing could have been accomplished in two-thirds the running time, pushing us with more urgency into the back half of the season, instead of feeling like a show thatвЂ™s kind of spinning its wheels before it gets to the good stuff. There are definitely things to like here - a more vulnerable performance than Karl Urban is usually allowed, the chemistry between Jack Quaid and Erin Moriarty, the kinky oddity that is everything Homelander does with Doppelganger - but this episode needed a tighter editing hand in both writing and post-production. And not exactly an action-packed one, either. No one is suggesting that a kinetic, loud show like The Boys can never slow down and take its time to dig into its characters in an episode like вЂњNothing Like It in the World,вЂќ but did they have to take 68 minutes to do so? ThatвЂ™s a movie.

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